I actually miss those days. I picked a style and it was their job to go get it and try it on me. I just had to sit.
Now - ‘the shoes are over there’.
Now - ‘the shoes are over there’.
I think back to when I first discovered the scanner at my parents work and how I would print pages of my face squished against the glass. First thing I would have done at the shoe store is stick my head under it and ask someone to look. I bet it happened regularly.
Back in the early days of x-ray technology some shoe stores would x-ray customers’ feet to make sure the shoes fit right
And if they didn’t they left the machine on a little longer to take care of those offensive toes.
Is she…staring directly at the X-ray itself?
Like, I don’t pretend to understand how X-rays work. I know they emit a wavelength of light that goes through soft tissue like nothing.
And I know normally, nowadays (or at least before digital came around), there would be a piece of x-ray sensitive film on one side of the object, and a bulb that shone x-ray onto it, which would then be developed (i think in a process sort of similar to polaroid but I could be mistaken again).
The dentists panoramic X-ray that swung around your head like something out of a sci-fi VR movie was the coolest, imo.
But…it looks like she’s looking directly at his foot through a special lens? Does it just put some sort of filter between her and the X-ray that makes it look like a really bright flashlight through the fleshy bits between your fingers?
In the 40s, fluoroscopy became available, basically giving you a real-time, animated view of an X-ray picture. And yes, it did have all the associated dangers of prolonged X-ray exposure.
I think the shoe shop guy was the one most at risk here, unless that woman bought shoes daily. He got exposed to leaked radiation with every customer.
I remember a book featuring … Al the Gebra, I think? In it all tungsten in the world disappeared. One thing in the book that surprised young me was that X-ray machines stopped functioning.
Apparently “tungsten has important niche roles in x-ray tubes.”
A Gebra named Al, I think. I remember reading that in class in like eighth grade.
Seems you’re right! I think I read it around the same age. Thank you for the reminder.
Shut up, Peg
Apart from slightly different looking measurement thingies what has changed?
I just used one of these on my gf yesterday to verify her shoe size at a puma store. So maybe the bench that we sit on is different, but that’s about all.
Society? 🤷
Now we just guess and if we’re wrong we have our slaves in India make us new ones repeat until we realize the brand doesn’t make shoes that fit. try a new brand send them back because we had our heart set on the other ones so we just use one of our other 50 pairs, glad we moved past that archaic machine.
Do your stores not allow you to try on shoes?
My store is amazon so no not really and also this is better than sticking your foot in the same
Condomshoe as nine other guys.
yep. if you had to go to a cobbler to get your shoes to fit, and each pair costed a month’s wages, we’d probably value a vendor who was an actual expert at the vocation.
A priest of footology!
All hail Pope Brannock!
